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[Yesod ʻolam]

Available Online: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3ww82
Title: [Yesod ʻolam]
Name: Israeli, Isaac ben Joseph, active 14th century, Országos Rabbiképző-Intézet (Hungary) (former owner)
Date: 1460
Collection: Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Item Type: Text
Physical Format: codices (bound manuscripts), diagrams, treatises, Manuscripts, Hebrew, Manuscripts, Renaissance, manuscripts (documents)
Description: Partial copy of an introduction to astronomy. Manuscript text is divided in 3 books, with the first book addressing geometry and trigonometry; the second, the structure and position of the Earth; and the third, the movement of the sun and moon and equinoxes and eclipses. The fourth book of the text, on the application of astronomy to the Jewish calendar, and the fifth book, containing canon tables, are not present in this manuscript.
Extent: 70 leaves : parchment and paper, illustrations ; 198 x 136 (140 x 88) mm bound to 210 x 146 mm
Language: Hebrew
Coverage: Early works to 1800
Note: Ms. codex., Title supplied by cataloger., Collation: Parchment and paper, i (modern paper) + 70 + i (modern paper); 1¹⁸ 2-3²⁰ 4²⁰(-8); [1-70], modern foliation in pencil, upper left and upper center recto. Gatherings have outermost and central bifolia of parchment with paper bifolia in between., Layout: Written in 40 long lines; frame-ruled in faint ink., Script: Written in Sephardic Hebrew script., Decoration: 37 astronomical diagrams representing orbits, eclipses, and other phenomena, with spaces left blank for additional diagrams., Binding: Modern leather, blind-tooled, with 2 clasps., Origin: Written in Spain or Italy, ca. 1460., Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative., Hebrew.
Relation: The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278, Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3ww82, Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs476.html, Video orientation: https://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000480
Subject: Astronomy -- Early works to 1800, Astronomy, Astronomy, Medieval, Jewish astronomy -- Early works to 1800, Jewish astronomy
Physical Location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 476
Provenance: Formerly owned by Moritz Dessauer, founding rabbi of the synagogue in Meiningen; inscription, Geschenk des Landrabbiners Dr. M. Dessauer in Meiningen, recording gift by Dessauer to unknown recipient (inside lower cover)., Formerly in the library of Országos Rabbiképző-Intézet (the Rabbincal Seminary of Budapest), K. 209., Offered for sale by Jörn Gunther Antiquariat (Basel, Switzerland), Brochure 8 (2004), item 17., Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Fall 2005., Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012., Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021., Dessauer, M. 1842-1895, former owner.
Rights: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Bibnumber: 9958580733503681

IIIF manifest: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3ww82/manifest

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